Saturday, March 26, 2005

Monday, March 14, 2005

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet: "What do you intend to tell Microsoft employees? What's your message to them going in, as one of the three CTOs?
Ozzie: Honestly, I haven't given it that much thought. If I had to, it'd be, 'What can I offer you from 20 years of some success and many mistakes?' You learn from your mistakes."

Friday, March 11, 2005

Microsoft acquires Groove

"My guess is that Groove's integration in the MS Windows desktop will accelerate the collaboration market, and start a fruitful competition in this important IT-segment."
Valuable insight. However, I would push back about this very last point made in this comment:
"Apropos document based: I am not aware of a more powerful e-editor than the native editor "Notes-networks" would have. This is not a paper editor Groove is confined to with MS Word. The documents created with "Notes-Networks" native editor are even open for integration with corporate data (vision for "Notes-networks" Rel-7: could you please include this NSFDB2 DAV-table in your departmental application that we can tap your data easily for our transaction systems. YesSir - 15 minutes later)."

“Office Information Bridge” provides exactly that corporate data awareness for Office documents already today.
more info about IW Bridge
Erfinder von Lotus-Notes geht zu Microsoft - Golem.de: "Microsoft kauft das von Lotus-Notes-Erfinder Ray Ozzie gegruendete Unternehmen Groove Networks. Dieses bietet eine Peer-to-Peer-basierte Groupware-Loesung an, mit der Microsoft seine Produktpalette erweitern will - vor allem im Bereich Microsoft Office."

Wow! - Danke fuer den Pointer, Markus!

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com: "Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant. "

Welcome to the team, Ray!